And last but certainly not least we have returned from the set of Twilight! It was cold, wet, snowy, sunny, rainy, windy, and simply wonderful. The cast and crew of this movie have endured what I like to call "extreme film making". They have our greatest admiration for the weather conditions they have had to endure. Day in and day out they stand in cold, wet, and even snowy conditions while making Twilight the movie a reality. Below you will find a picture of the Script Supervisor and a little something she does to help her get through those difficult days.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more from the set and the Portland area!

Awesome!
Okay, I know this is off topic, but tomorrow my friend and I are going down to the set for the last day of shooting so if we get pics we’ll try and send them to the lex! Can’t wait to see what the mods got from their days down there!!

Oh, wonderful! I would like to point out though that you linked the second page of the Times article; it confused me a bit at first! It’s always great to see so many interesting articles to read and videos to watch!

Cathrine has now become my favorite director! She is awsome and such an energetic person. She couldnt even keep still during the interview and had to show us things with her hands. I also love having to boss around a bunch of guys Go CATHERINE

That G4 interview was really interesting. Catherine Hardwicke is really unique, haha. The music they used sounded like it could be in the movie- it was nice, but creepy and mysterious. Just like Twilight =) It has that tone to it.

The producer seems cool, too. He was right in saying that having the author there to oversee things makes the film much more genuine. They all seem so focused on getting this movie right, which is AWESOME.

Man, everyone complains about the NW spring weather. Of course, it seems most people expect spring to start in April. Silly people. 😛 I live about an hour away from Portland OR and I can tell you that spring doesn’t really start until mid-May. Summer starts sometime around the end of June. And all winter long, even if the sky is grey, the ground is a pretty green. Stephenie pretty much nailed it when she had Bella complain about everything that ought to be brown being covered in green.

A really great article in Time! I have heard and read a lot of that information numerous times but Stephenie’s own personal story is still probably the best one! (Though Bella’s story is a close 2nd.)
She’s an inspiration. Family AND super successful career. Kudos Stephenie!

Wow. I get online at like 3 in the morning and there’s a plethora of updates. The video was amazing and the Time article was weird at the beginning–sort of wrong about the dream…but other than that it was really cool to just read about Stephenie and her life. I really admire her.

does anyone else feel like we might spoil the movie too much for ourselves before it comes out? we have months ahead of us and that is plenty of time to see how everything is going to look.. special scenes..

or maybe that’s just me.. cause i know we already read the book and things are already expected and we know what it’ll mostly look like.. but idk..
everything so far looks great though.

That Time’s article was amazing. It makes me feel like putting together a Twilight scrapbook for myself with stuff like this in it.Though I think I’d feel a little guilty considering I haven’t finished my kids scrapbooks. hmmm…what really are my priorities these days? lol.
Great pics too. I always get super excited when I see anything to do with the scene where the floor gets destroyed…it really gets my heart going, which works out since the scenes with Robert and his smoldering looks tend to stop my heart.hehe

Catherine Hardwicke is becoming a favorite of mine. She’s very personable, and I like that. That video was nice; having just Catherine and the producer talk instead of all the actors. We can stop worrying..he did say this was the purest adaptation.

That was an extraordinary well written article. I’m so happy to see other writers taking the time out to finally understand Stephenie and the Twilight series – and even The Host. The whole sweeping generalization of “Vampire, run little girl, run! He overpronounces his V’s! ” was starting to really bother me. Oh, and I’m pretty sure this was the first, and possibly only, article I’ve seen comparing JKR and SM in an educational, thoughtful, realistic way. It wasn’t all oh, Twilight is the next Harry Potter, but instead spoke about the similiarities and differences. Thanks Lex, you’re always posting the best stuff and keeping us updated. I used to check my email first thing in the morning, now I come straight to you.

However what interested me the most was the part with the second unit director in the G4 video. He said that the opening secuence would be the Cullens hunting!! O_o He said that it is almost like a documentary and he describes it as “really beautiful”.

I mean I like the idea, it would be a very striking opening secuence, but I don’t know if it is a good idea to tell the audience about them being vampires at the very beginning.

Looks like they’re going to be kicking Harry Potter in the butt and keeping our beloved story as close to the book as possible.
I’m beyond grateful. I was so terrified that they would take Twilight and morph it into something unrecognizable by the time they’d finished with it.